Original question text by @phantomwise@lemmy.ml

What are the modern design trends you hate most? Feel free to rant! Mine are:

  • Physical buttons are out of fashion, now EVERYTHING must have a touch screen instead! Especially if it makes the appliance more inconvenient to use. Like having to press a flimsy touch screen ten times to scroll through a washing machine’s programs instead of just turning a physical knob and pressing a physical start button.
  • Every website looks like it’s made for a phone and was vomited by the same app in slightly different flavors of vomit.
  • Actually EVERYTHING looks like it’s made for a phone… Like what’s the deal with all those hamburger menus on DESKTOP apps? Please just put a regular menu and same me some pointless clicking, it’s not like you’re lacking screen space. I especially hate that those menus can’t be opened from the keyboard like regular menus.
  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    1.) Everything is a “smart” device. Household appliances, as a general rule, should not be connectable to the internet or require an app.

    Cheaper components, poor build quality, and lack of user serviceable parts are the primary reasons your washer and dryer last 10 years compared to your parents Maytag set that was still ticking away after 30. Cheap, unnecessary electronics, which don’t have as long a lifespan as mechanical timers and switches, only exacerbate this problem.

    2.) Cordless tools as a means of vendor locking customers.

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      2 months ago

      I feel like I should bring back this timeless Tumblr post. I do not want internet on any of my appliances, and nobody should.

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        2 months ago

        I’m way more inclined to connect my devices if I can actually control them and not just have random seemingly pointless data about me harvested. But mostly we just don’t get that choice.

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      1 month ago

      Smart is fine if and only if:

      • Not the only way to interact with the device
      • Supports open, local-only protocols like Zigbee or Matter
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    1. the lets put a lot of shit in the title bar of our app trend. Fuck off, I use that bar to pull the window around.
    2. The idea that I should adapt to the technology, and not the other way around. Don’t force changes on me, especially when they’re only implemented to be able to slap a new version number on the box.
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      1 month ago

      Counter offer: dark themes as default for professional software.

      I don’t write software in a dimly light geek cave, I do it in a well lit office. And I can’t tell that dark red string from the background.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Items are no longer made to last past their warranty.

    They are made to last past the time you’re allowed to leave a review.

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    2 months ago

    Long winding UI Dialouge trees that you can get “stuck” in! If my settings are invalid, let me out of of the menu with as little consiquences and sacrifices as you can manage. I may need to back out to go grab data or change a setting on a page you decided to make before (hell even after) the one that wont let me continue and/or go back.

    Windows’s “wizard” style dialouges just suck!

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    The “toggle switch”. In the past we had these checkboxes. A black square. If it had a x or check mark in it, it meant this option was active, otherwise not.

    Now we have these fancy toggle switches. If it’s on the left side, is it on or off? What if it’s blue, or grey?

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        1 month ago

        left is definetly not always off. i am curious what you mean by delayed effect that cannot also affect a checkbox. especially if some cookie settings now havetoggles with three options, each one in a different color, some just slide between the rightmosg and middle option etc.

        no matter what you say, this is not intuitive, a checkbox is! if there are more than two options, choose another ui element. foem over function is way too common for (at least my) comfort nowadays

  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The removal of bezels on phones, the camera cutouts sometimes have issues and its all together worse, just for a technically larger screen, and Apps, so many apps are just packaged web browsers, but with more access to private information and such.

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        2 months ago

        Yes this is so dumb. Razor thin phone with massive camera bumps. Who is asking for this?

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            2 months ago

            I think that’s kind of the thing. They can’t physically make the camera any smaller, but they assume you’re going to make the phone thicker with a case. So it’s a compromise based on customer preference.

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              Well ideally they would just make the phone more durable without a case, and the full thickness of the camera filled with battery, headphone jack, etc.

              Seriously so much smartphone design is based on initial appeal, not actual usability.

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                For me, the issue isn’t just about durability, it’s also about how a cheap clear TPU case is way grippier than the metal or glass of the phone itself.

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    2 months ago

    Minimalism.

    It’s everywhere from company logos, to fast food interior design, and now the vexillology community swears by minimalist flag designs.

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      2 months ago

      The open floor plan was the beginning of our demise.

      Almighty Profit Motive™ forbid we proles find any semblance of joy in our lives and - gasp - interact with the physical world around us in any meaningful and engaged way!

      No, we must be deprived of all dopamine outside of our designated corporate brainrot centers.

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    2 months ago

    Nothing is fun anymore. Seriously. Modern designers do not design fun things anymore. No matter what it is, cell phones, cars, dining chairs, there is nothing fun. Nothing invites interaction. Nothing invites relationship building.

    I saw this thing the other day. The “Jack in a Box” Television by Timo Salli for the short-lived studio SNOWCRASH. Made in 1997. Where the fuck is this energy nowadays?? Everything looks either angry or bored with us now. It’s all so antagonistic with no justification. Zero whimsy, zero intrigue. Why does this walmart toaster look like it wants to fight me? Designers’ personalities are erased with nothing to show for it but row after row of the same matte white or piano black plastic SHIT (30% OFF!)

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    2 months ago

    Every electronic item whether it be a hot water kettle, air conditioner or an UPS backup in my camper, even my electric toothbrush has to make a noise, a bing or beep when either the things starts, changes phase or finishes.